Scotch Bonnet Yellow Pepper

Attractive, golden-yellow, squat little peppers with a shocking heat and superb fruit-like flavor. They also have a wonderful, unique aroma. A standard in Caribbean cooking. Wonderful, but very spicy-- please use caution.

I grew up around scotch bonnets and love their flavor and heat. These definately looked like the real thing, but the heat and flavor were not there. They tasted like bell peppers and were almost on the sweet side. I tried peppers from 4 different plants with the same sad tasting results. The missing heat would not have been too bad had the flavor been there, any flavor. I will be tossing the rest of these seeds in the trash. Very dissapointed that I wasted a season on these. I guess I can use them on pizza instead of bell peppers.

I am impressed with the germination rate of these seeds I got from Baker Creek. I planted 54 and ALL 54 have sprouted are growing beautifully. These were the first seeds I have ordered from this company and I'm now hooked...

The scotch bonnet pepper is a slow to mature hot pepper here in Massachusetts but worth the wait. Makes the most wonderfully unique hot sauce that is not for the meek but also fails to deliver the heat for the true heat freaks. I overlook the lack of breathtaking heat secondary to the wonderful flavor. I will keep growing this pepper and giving away the hot sauce as it remains in high demand from friends and family. No pest issues to date, a truly reliable addition to my garden.

Once these peppers got going they still haven't quit producing and its December 9th here in Florida. My peppers are red though and never turned yellow even though I have left some on the plant until they fell off. I think this is a very hot pepper.